• Brainsploosh@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    The conventional answer is that there would be much less incentive to fund new ones.

    Some things need a large investment to start: power plants, cities, factories, space stations, etc. Sometimes more money than the people involved can afford, and you need to ask someone to front the money, they typically get paid with a share of the profits.

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        2 minutes ago

        The problem is that NGOs and charities are just a way for capital to manage social stability and will never have that kind of expansiveness. It’s like trying to build socialism by starting worker cooperatives in a bourgeois democracy.